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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy continues to try to find allies for the Ukraine-Russia War. He warned about the newest development with the Iran War might be at best a distraction, and at worst a revenue stream to Russia. (Maksym Kishka / Frontliner / Getty Images)

Iran war helps Russia, Zelenskyy warns

CK Smith

Ukrainian leader cites higher oil prices and U.S. distraction as risks to ending the Ukraine-Russia conflict

FCC Chairman Brendan Carr echoed President Trump's warning on media to cover the Iran War according to his viewpoint or suffer the consequences. (Kevin Dietsch / Getty Images)

FCC warns broadcasters covering Iran War

CK Smith

Trump and FCC attack networks' Iran war coverage, critics warn of chilling effect on press freedom

Pete Buttigieg speaks at a town hall in Cedar Rapids, Iowa on Tuesday, May 13, 2025. (Photo by KC McGinnis/Getty Images)

Buttigieg: Trump uses war dead as props

Alex Galbraith

The former Cabinet official said that Trump was "unfit" to lead

Nina Kiri in "Undertone" (Dustin Rabin/A24)

Horror's crucial less-is-more lesson

Coleman Spilde

A24's latest chiller is a master class in getting under the skin — until it falls back on old tricks

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Jeremy Culhane as Tucker Carlson, and anchor Colin Jost during Weekend Update on Saturday, March 14, 2026. (Photo by Will Heath/NBC)

"SNL" gets Carlson's take on Oscars

Alex Galbraith

Jeremy Culhane played the former Fox News host as a constantly confused cinephile

Potluck (Nicole Kandi)

How to become a potluck person

Ashlie D. Stevens

A guide to hosting — or showing up to — the modern potluck without the awkwardness

President Donald Trump and Kaiser Wilhelm II (Illustration by Getty Images/Salon)

When a narcissist led the world into war

Andrew O'Hehir

Kaiser Wilhelm II was an erratic despot known for unhinged foreign policy schemes. The result was catastrophe

President Donald Trump ( Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)

Trump's Strait of Hormuz problem

Heather Digby Parton

Oil prices surge as the Trump administration shows no clear plan for the world’s most critical shipping lane

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Residents watch from a rooftop as smoke rises over Tehran following a strike on March 3, 2026, with an illustration of the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse faintly layered in the background. (Illustration by Salon / Getty Images / ATTA KENARE / Public Domain)

The modern prophecy behind the Iran war

Russell Payne

Religious leaders warn that apocalyptic beliefs might outweigh the nuclear taboo

A Thai cargo ship got caught in the crossfire in the Strait of Hormuz. Some are making it safely to the port, but others are feeling the tensions first-hand in the region. (AFP PHOTO / ROYAL THAI NAVY / Getty Images)

Trump rebukes media amid Iran Strikes

CK Smith

Tehran warns of retaliation as Trump denies media coverage, oil prices spike as Iraq and UAE caught in the middle

James Murdoch, Elisabeth Murdoch, Rupert Murdoch and Lachlan Murdoch (Tom Stoddart/Getty Images)

"The Murdochs" is a messier "Succession"

Melanie McFarland

Netflix's strangely entertaining new docuseries explains the ascendance of Fox News in the age of Trump

President Trump's Kennedy Center drama continues with changes in leadership after a tumultuous year. (Jabin Botsford / Getty Images)

Trump ally out as Kennedy Center leader

CK Smith

Ric Grenell’s exit comes after boycotts, artist backlash and a bitter fight over politics at the iconic arts venue

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Foraging is the new food tourism

Katie Lockhart

Travelers are trading restaurant reservations for seaweed hunts, truffle dogs and lionfish dives — ushering in the

Fire breaks out at the Shahran oil depot in Tehran after U.S. and Israeli attacks, March 8, 2026. (Hassan Ghaedi/Anadolu via Getty Images)

Why the Iran war was inevitable

Mike Lofgren

There were many reasons behind Trump's decision to attack — but none of them were about US national security

Homeless veterans are housed in 30 tents on a sidewalk along a busy San Vicente Boulevard outside the Veteran's Administration campus in West Los Angeles as viewed on April 22, 2021 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by George Rose/Getty Images)

Trump's troubled plan for certain vets

Garrett Owen

Advocates warn that the program could erode homeless veterans' trust in the VA

As the U.S. and Israeli strikes on Iran continue and the number of American casualties climbs, President Donald Trump is insisting everything is fine. (SAUL LOEB / AFP via Getty Images)

Reality doesn't matter to Trump

Brian Karem

The war will end when Trump feels it in his bones. In the meantime, he says everything is fine

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Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., has come under attack from MAGA media on Iran (Hannes Magerstaedt/Getty Images)

Lindsey Graham’s Iran problem

Sophia Tesfaye

Pro-Trump media figures warn the president is trapped in a hawkish echo chamber around the senator

Nan Goldin in "All the Beauty and The Beauty and the Bloodshed" (HBO)

A powerful Oscar nominee you didn't see

Coleman Spilde

"All the Beauty and the Bloodshed" shows how Nan Goldin challenged the Sackler family with artistic protests

USAF KC-135R trailing its aerial refuelling boom. (Loop Images / Getty Images)

US military refueling plane crashes

Jelinda Montes

This is the fourth known US aircraft to crash under non-hostile circumstances since beginning efforts in Iran

(L to r) Michael B. Jordan and director Ryan Coogler behind the scenes of "Sinners" (Eli Adé/Warner Bros. Pictures)

Please prove me wrong, Oscars. Please!

Melanie McFarland

I regret to predict that "One Battle After Another" is a safer choice for an irritatingly familiar reason

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Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is known for his chest-thumping (Andrew Harnik/Getty Images)

Pete Hegseth's manly act is backfiring

Amanda Marcotte

MAGA bros hoped the defense secretary would make them feel butch — with Iran war, he embarrasses them

(Illustration by Salon / Getty Images / Kevin Dietsch / iStock)

Labor Department chaos masks dysfunction

Russell Payne

Dysfunction at the NLRB has grown to the point that it’s even beginning to hurt employers

The U.S. Capitol building is seen on March 09, 2026 in Washington, DC. U.S. Senators return to Capitol Hill while the House of Representatives is out of session this week. (Photo by Heather Diehl/Getty Images)

How Congress can push back on Iran war

Charlie Hunt, SoRelle Wyckoff Gaynor - The Conversation

What power does the U.S. Congress have over the president’s war in Iran?

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ExpressVPN review

Marc Dahan

This impressive VPN offers premium service at a premium price

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